Rehearsing Pain Makes You Suffer Twice
What if the habit you call preparation is actually making you suffer before anything has happened?
In this episode of Just Julia, we explore the ideas behind Julia Kallas’s essay “I Was Always Prepared for the Worst”: why worst-case thinking feels protective, how the body responds to imagined danger, and the crucial difference between preparing for uncertainty and emotionally living through it in advance.
Drawing on Julia’s personal reflections and an insight from Jay Shetty about our attachment to worst-case scenarios, this conversation examines the hidden cost of always bracing for…
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